Denny’s Zinger: Sell What Ya Got

In 1949, my mother said to book publisher Franklin Watts (who was my first boss in business), “Frank, you have a face like a Toby mug.”

Whereupon Frank and Helen hired a sculptor and had 100 Toby mugs made up as pencil holders for Christmas presents to book dealers, wholesalers, jobbers and librarians.

One of Frank’s many aphorisms:

“Sell what ya got.”

In this era of instant gratification, customers expect delivery quick — that afternoon, or at worst in a day or two.

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